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[[preprinted]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM UNDER DIRECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON [[/preprinted]] Entries during the month were 165,106 - 165,423 318 numbers 406 specimens. The most notworthy were those of Edward Palmer, from Mexico; of Hon. Alex. R. Webb, from the Philippine Islands: of Carl Steckelman, from Moyumba, Africa and the purchases made by the Bureau of Ethnology for the World's Fair, especially from the Kiowa Indians, the Sioux, the Northern Arapahos and the Shoshones. I am very respectfully yr. O.T. Mason